KCETLink Celebrates Women's History Month with Special Programming
Burbank, CA - March 4, 2013 - KCET invites viewers to celebrate Women's
History Month on KCET with several wonderful programs that highlight the contributions of women in monumental
events as well as contemporary society.
California Women Win the Vote - Sunday, March 10 at 5 p.m.
Using historical materials
and live reenactments, this film presents the dramatic Suffrage campaign that
won the women of California the right to vote nine years before the Federal
Amendment. The campaign becomes a role model and motivation for the rest of the
country; today, the tactics and spirit of these women are a guide and an
inspiration for citizen activism in a democratic society. Narrated by Bonnie
Franklin, California Women Win the Vote
shares an inspiring story of cooperation, collaboration, determination and the
long-enduring belief in equality.
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Sunday, March 17 at
4:30 p.m.This award-winning
documentary features extraordinary women and the inner fire which propels them
to use their wisdom and experience to change the world. The film creates a
vivid mosaic, weaving together ancient archetypes, modern-day stories and
interviews, impressionistic re-enactments and an original score of Celtic and
world-influenced music by Jamshied Sharifi. It also features a number of
influential females including: Marianne Williamson, Della Reese, Jane Fonda,
Nikki Giovanni, Sylvia Earle, Susan L. Taylor, Tenzin Palmo, Jody Williams,
Indigenous Grandmothers Agnes Baker Pilgram and Flordemayo, Jean Shinoda Bolen,
Laura Carstensen, Angeles Arrien, Linda Leitch, Swanee Hunt, Vivian
Castleberry, Roberta Pollard and Martha Jackson-Javis.
Service:
When Women Come Marching Home - Sunday, March 24 at
4:30 p.m.Service: When Women Come Marching Home takes
the audience on a journey from the deserts of Afghanistan to rural Tennessee
and from Iraq to urban New York City. It shows women functioning as fully
accepted and contributing members of a military unit as well as the devastating
isolation and persecution of those who report rape. We see these women as
veterans fighting to find homes, demanding services, responding to therapy and
gaining their independence. Through interviews in their kitchens, bathrooms,
even therapy sessions, this program reveals the raw truths of our women
warriors fighting in the battlefield called "home."
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